www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Acer Computer and Telstra Business joins hand to to release three ready-to-go business laptops and data plan bundles with built-in wireless mobile broadband connectivity. These bundles will make it easier for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to join the remote workforce revolution, thus providing better services and products to small business.

According to Telstra Business Group Managing Director Deena Shiff, 2010 Back to Business SME survey1 found that not only was the availability of finance a serious concern for about 70 percent of those polled, but investing in technology, including wireless broadband, featured in the growth plans of one in four.

Charles Chung, Acer computer regional Managing Director feels that expansion of 3G embedded notebooks, with their eight hour battery life, onto the Telstra Next GTM network for business customers means all-day, on-the-go computing is now in the reach of more SMEs.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: ClearTalk Wireless, mobile service provider based in USA & aKos Technology together to launch a US-to-Latin America mobile money transfer service. This service enables ClearTalk subscribers to send funds internationally from their mobile phone to recipients who can withdraw funds in cash from merchants they frequent.

In the beginning, the service will be available to ClearTalk subscribers in its California market starting 20 April. aKos’ ‘mobile to merchant to cash’ approach does not require a financial instrument, such as a bank account, credit card, stored value card, for either the sender or the recipient. Moreover, this does not require any downloaded application on the mobile handset. aKos is in alliance with Viamericas to support the ClearTalk launch. The aKos has implemented their service on the Smartbox Mobile Services Platform to provide a service offering for ClearTalk’s subscribers.